Thursday, September 23, 2010

Enhancements to My Home

It's not everyday you meet people who love style and creativity as much as you do. That's part of why we developed Polyvore -- to help you connect with people whose taste inspires you. That's why the first page you see when you log into Polyvore is My Home, a personalized page of styles from your contacts & groups.

Today we've added some new sections to My Home to help make it easier to connect with your contacts and and see the styles they love:Contacts' Collections. Collections are a treasure trove of interesting themed content, like futuristic looks and how to dress like Glee. Lately we've noticed an increase in the number of collections created, so we wanted to make it easier to see your contacts' collections.

Questions from My Contacts. Never miss a request for help from a friend! When your contacts ask a question in the Style Advice section, it'll show up instantly on your My Home page.

Contests. Members tell us they LOVE to participate in contests, and are bummed when they miss the entry deadline or don't know which contests are running. We always make sure to have great contests running with cool prizes from brands like Tommy Hilfiger, YSL, Levi's, and Prabal Gurung.

Contests in My Groups. Group contests are just as important as our site-wide contests, so we've also added a section for you to browse contests from your groups.

In addition to these changes, we've also streamlined the Recent Activity stream to be a bit cleaner, and we've removed the Ideas tab from the editor because it wasn't used very often.

We hope these changes help you connect more deeply with the other creative minds on Polyvore!

If you have feedback or suggestions, please tell us what you think by leaving a comment here on the blog.

UPDATE 9/24/10 10:22AM PST: Based on your feedback, we've added full text comments back into the activity stream.

UPDATE 9/24/11:54AM PST: We've also injected some colors back into your stats icons.

I dont like it because i cant see my comments of home like i used to do!!! now i have to open the set to read all the comments! Maybe you can do it like i used to be,the rest of changes are ok.Thank you!

I really like the new changes. But I think that there should be some sort of option where you can choose your layout. Like, "Preferences" or something like that. So you can choose what shows up on your homepage and what doesn't. And you can also choose whether or not you see the exact time someone commented, whether or not you can actually see the comment on your homepage, etc.

Although the contests idea is great, some things are just confusing. Streamlining the feed makes it so confusing! I can't tell when a comment was really posted, and it takes me longer to figure out if it was one I had already looked at now that it's grouped by hours and you can't even see the comment itself in the My Home space. And also, with all these add ons, the page is terribly long! It takes forever to load, even though just before all the changes it was quick as can be. The top bar of Polyvore is also annoying. If my mouse breezes over it the slightest, that box comes up with information about the new contest or brand, and I for one think it is insanely annoying. I do love the creativity, but..the old parts seemed much simpler and easier.

Are you serious.Instead you try to solve problems that you have made, you make another problem to us. In all those changes have only few thing good, others are seriously wrong and make our time here disgusting. PLEASE BRING BACK OUR COMMENTS, BRING BACK OUR COLORS TO OUR ICONS. THAT IS PROBLEM. YOU ARE TRULY become ridiculous. If you have an understanding and appreciation for our time you will fix that.

WE MISS BEING ABLE TO READ COMMENTS FROM THE HOMEPAGE!!! it's really helpful to see if that's a comment you've already replied to or not, which is especially important to roleplayers. WE ALL MISS IT :(

I dont like it because i cant see my comments of home like i used to do!!! now i have to open the set to read all the comments! Maybe you can do it like i used to be,the rest of changes are ok.Thank you!

These changes are fine, I guess.What I'm more concerned with, and I've seen many many sets about, are the MISSING COMMENTS on our home page. OMG, YOU GUYS.... PLEASE let us have them. Its completely annoying and bothersome to go back and forth. PLEASE PLEASE!!!!! Can we have a vote or something? Maybe sign a petition?

PLEASE, PLEASE LET US HAVE COMMENTS BACK ON OUR HOME PAGE. I'm begging here... ♥Angie♥

Only god thing is list of contest in our groups in home page, other changes you have made is annoying. PLEASE listen to us and BRING IT BACK. O YES IF YOU "REALLY" WANT TO LISTEN. We losing our precious time here to write you that you are horribly wrong, and we know in advance that is just a "waste of time".

I really like it! I think it's really modern and adds a more professional feel to the website. I also think it's a lot easier to navigate throughout the site now, and be able to get the full advantages of pv. Love the changes you guys are making!

these people are just stupid. they can't accept change for the life of them. my gawd guys, just CHILL for once! it's not THAT BIG OF A DEAL. if it is, go get your butts off of polyvore and get a real life.

that said, i'm totally cool with all the changes except i do like to see the comments on the home page. i think everyone would agree there. but other than that, i'm cool with the changes you make. thanks for putting so much into this site and putting up with all the whiney little justin bieber rolerplayers -_____-

I REALLY dont like the changes!It looks too cluttered! And its confuing, plus it keeps crashing my computer! I know your trying to make it nicer/easier but your just creating annoying problems.

And i roleplay alot and the comments thing is now confusing me because i cat see the comments people have made or it says its been made a hour ago but its only like 3 minutes. Which is stupid and annoying.

I like the changes, thanks a lot. But I would like to be able to read the comments on my sets from my home page like before. I don´t want to go to each set to read the comments every time I sign in, it´s a waste of time. So please, would you be kind enough to change this back? Hope you will pay attention to this suggestion, I know many people thinks like me. By the way, I have also a problem with the flip/flop tool.

I really like most of the changes, but the thing I don't really like is how we can't see the "Comments" that were actually made until we click on the set. With the way it was before- where we could read it on the home page- it was very convienient and not to mention, much easier. Please change it back! Other than that, great job on the changes to Polyvore!

Thank you for keeping up this great website! I don't know why people have to be so negative about the changes. :\ Y'all are doing all this work for US -- to enjoy polyvore as much as possible. I think everyone should just be grateful. The saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." goes a long way. ;) Thank you!!!

You know....for a free site...that is always trying to make things BETTER... you people sure do bitch a lot! For heavens sake. GROW UP! This is FREE! They can do and make any changes they want to! Appreciate the fact that you have this site! If you don't like the changes...LEAVE..there's the door!

So you decided to remove the Ideas Tab from under the CREATE section which was fully functioning and a wonderful and easy way to scroll and see every current contest that was open in your groups. And you replaced it with just 3 contests from your groups which Polyvore selects and places at the bottom of the Home page????? And to view all the rest of the contests open in your groups you have to go and OPEN EACH AND EVERY SINGLE GROUP YOU BELONG TO????? And Polyvore thought this was a good idea because ????????????????????????

So I was the only one who used the idea tab in the editor? I miss it because I could see all of the contests my groups were having, and now I can see three, if I bother to go back to the home page and scroll down. I adore my contacts, but I really don't need to see their collections on my home page. And I've been missing the comments on the home page. I've actually been reading them much less and even leaving comments much less. Also , it doesn't seem necessary to change the way the time is displayed on the activity feed when it was more accurate before.

"Contests in my Groups" on the home Page is OK, but I only can see 3 contests. I have also used the Ideas tab, and I could see all open contests in my groups, it was easy, you could put the Ideas tab back. PLEASE!And the comments, of course... this was the most interactive part ...For the rest, thanks for the improvements!

I really like the contest section, it's so much easy now to check them, without having to go to the explore section or each group.What I don't like so much is the Recent activity part, it looks a bit confusing and I prefer to see the comments directly.

I really dont understand why you make so many changes!!!! we love poly the way it was and we used to it,dont make changes every 2 weeks!!!! because we didnt ask for this changes!!!!make it simple if you want to have people here! Anyway,in the last period are left only a few on this site! :((

WE MISS BEING ABLE TO READ COMMENTS FROM THE HOMEPAGE!!! it's really helpful to see if that's a comment you've already replied to or not, which is especially important to roleplayers. WE ALL MISS IT :(

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS GIRL~!!IS HORRIBLE WHAT YOU DID TO THIS SITE!!

I used the 'ideas' tab in the editor all the time. It was what gave me the inspiration for most all of my sets. Please put it back in the editor. It is annoying to have to leave the editor to get an 'idea' or to see what contests are running. Please give me back my 'ideas' tab!! I really hate being forced to leave the editor! Also, I don't like all the 'new clutter' added to my 'home' page. I would love to have the option to remove it, say with a plus or minus sign or an option in my profile 'settings' page. More choices and less forcing is good!

It's a real pain not being able to see the actual comments in the activity list and seems pointless splitting it by hours. I also don't like that if your set wins in a contest it doesn't tell you which contest it is.

I'd like to see more info on what contests are running but no need to show sets that have been entered, that space could be used to show more contests.

Yay for having the comments back on the activity feed. It's nice to be able to feed my ego with a quick glance again. lol. Still don't see the point in lumping the activity together by hour instead of the actual time, which was accurate and let us know more easily when our contacts were online. Maybe I'll adapt, but I'll never get used to the idea tab being gone. And I still miss being able to filter our sets by popularity. It was a fun way for me to look at my older sets that I don't see very often. Change is great, but taking away functions that many of us truly enjoyed and appreciated is frustrating.

Hope all gliches can get cleared up soon, ie.flop won't enlarge, etc. But I compliment you on the MY HOME updates! Love it! Keep up the good work and thanks for listening to the majority of positive critics!

Thank you sooooooo much for having the comments back on the activity feed and the colors on the icoons....please give us the actual time back so we can see when our contacts are online ! ! ! ! I have always used the Ideas tab, and I could see all open contests in my groups, it was easy,now it takes ages to browse through my groups to know which contests are running....it's a real pain so PLEASE could you put the Ideas tab back ! ! ! ! !Regards Greta

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new changes!! I am SO happy with them! I love how the message tab was changed to show the unread messages within parenthesis -- I was waiting for Polyvore to do that! I LOVE the Recent Activity stream and how you added back color/comments!! Thank you so much for all the work you continue to do to make the site better than it already is. I LOVE it so much and your changes are so creative!!

One issue, perhaps, with the Idea tab was its name. It should have been called Contests. Then maybe more people would have realized what it was and used it. After all, there are still people who don't use or even realize what the Background tool is for. It sounds like it refers to the background of the set when it actually refers to the background of whichever image you have selected. Also, it would be good if the old blog link returned to the top of the pages.

Thank you so much for bringing back the color to the icons. It's fabulous! I love the comments on the activity stream too. That is fantastic! One more favor to ask though, could you please bring back the 'idea' tab to the editor, so that I don't have to leave the editor to see what contests are running. Short term memory is the bane of my existence! lol I would appreciate it if you could do that. I really depended on that 'idea' tab a lot! THANKS Polyvore. You rock!